Personal blog about states
New York City
New York | |
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Country | United States |
State | New York |
Region | Mid-Atlantic |
Constituent counties (boroughs) | Bronx (The Bronx) Kings (Brooklyn) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Richmond (Staten Island) |
NYC is made up of 5 boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx). New York State is the 27th largest state but the 4th in population (mostly in NYC ). Most of the state is referred to as ‘upstate’ to distinguish from the city . Upstate and it’s people are totally different from NYC .
It’s like a smaller city within our massive metropolis. NYC has five of them— the Bronx , Brooklyn , Manhattan , Queens and Staten Island —each with dozens of neighborhoods lending their own local flavor.
New York is bounded to the west and north by Lake Erie, the Canadian province of Ontario , Lake Ontario , and the Canadian province of Quebec; to the east by the New England states of Vermont , Massachusetts , and Connecticut ; to the southeast by the Atlantic Ocean and New Jersey ; and to the south by Pennsylvania .
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New York | |
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Entered the Union: July 26, 1788 (11) | Capital: Albany |
State Song: ” I Love New York “ | State Animal: Beaver |
National Forests: 1 • State Forests: 132 • State Parks: 168 | |
Famous For : Niagara Falls, Broadway Musicals, Statue of Liberty, Baseball Hall of Fame, United Nations, NY Stock Exchange |
New York City is highlighted in red; ” Upstate ” refers to some or all of the area north and west of the city. The Bear Mountain Bridge across the Hudson River, as seen from Bear Mountain. It connects the northern parts of Westchester and Rockland Counties, considered by some to be the southern edge of Upstate .
While New York State’s greatest pockets of wealth are clustered on Long Island and in New York City’s immediate suburbs, there are villages and small communities scattered across the Upstate NY region that rank among some of the richest places in the state.
Manhattan is NYC and New York City is in NY While it has a ” New York , NY ” mailing address, neither the Island of Manhattan nor the Borough of Manhattan is the entirety of New York City , which includes 5 boroughs, not one borough, that are each coterminous with a county in New York State.
The worst neighborhoods and districts in Unsafe Areas in New York are: Long wood. A neighborhood in the Bronx , with population of 33,198 people. Fort Greene. A Brooklyn neighborhood of 23,886 people. Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill & Dumbo.
Bronx crime is unfortunately high at the moment (although its City Island is a pretty safe outlier), and the borough is even facing a minor epidemic of hypodermic needles scattered on the grounds of its parks.
The bronx is part of thee american experience people move in and people move out. Atleast in other boroughs the ghetto does not make up the majority. The non- ghetto neighborhoods also don’t look the same as the ghetto ones (unlike the Bronx where even Riverdale looks like Fordham). The Bronx is tough.
The Empire State
New York is located in the northeastern United States, in the Mid-Atlantic Census Bureau division. Additionally, New York touches the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, and two of the Great Lakes: Lake Erie to the west and Lake Ontario to the northwest.
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